My Memory Can Be Rented

In 2080, "memory retrieval technology" matured, and memory became the third largest hard currency after real estate and stocks. Happy memories are priced on a per-gram basis, childhood memories are top-notch luxuries, and painful memories are packaged as "stimulating experiences" and sold to rich people seeking shivers. Shen Ji, a former memory engineer, runs an inconspicuous "Memory Pawnshop No. 7" In the alleys of the old city. Guests can pawn their memories in exchange for credits, or buy other people's memories to experience another life. Every time a transaction is completed, a few "memory fragments" remain in Shen Jing's mind, and he has an ability that even he doesn't know the source of - to rejoin the fragments and restore the truth behind the memory that was deliberately erased. A black crystal pawned anonymously broke the peace of the pawn shop. It was a childhood trauma that was artificially implanted and deleted by a high-ranking congressman. Someone behind the scenes manipulated his political decision-making by rewriting his memory. During the investigation, Shen Yan encountered the same codename "Abyss" again and again, and was horrified to discover that the first line of code for this monster, which tried to feed "Despair AI" with collective pain and destroy human emotions, was written before he was five years old when he was completely deleted. When the whole world is buying and selling memories, he is the only one who is protecting people's right to "remember".